Liver Transplant Surgeon
Reported by 34 physicians · region cohort · total comp, not the employer's posted pay
Overview
- Location
- Ruby Memorial Hospital (WVUH)
- Schedule
- 40 hours per week
- SalaryDr Signal range
- $449k – $711k
- Practice
- Academic medical center · Academic medical center (J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital)
34 physician reports · not the employer's posted pay
Role summary
WVU Health System seeks a Liver Transplant Surgeon to join their academic medical center, practicing 40 hours per week with a focus on developing a liver transplant program, teaching, and research. The role is full-time at their 880-bed academic hospital in Morgantown, WV.
What the posting highlights
- Care setting: Primarily inpatient transplant surgery within an academic medical center
- Patient population: Liver transplant patients and multi-organ transplant referrals
- Research or clinical-trial participation is noted
- Teaching or an academic practice setting is noted
SalaryDr summary based on the original posting
Posted base pay vs physician-reported total comp
Physician-reported range shown; the employer did not post pay for this role.
Compensation
- What physicians report
- $449k – $711k
- Pay context
- SalaryDr Signal · physician-reported
- Report sample
- 34 recent physician reports · region cohort
- Compensation basis
- Estimated total compensation
This is a SalaryDr Signal computed from 34 recent, approved physician reports (region cohort). It is not an employer offer or posted pay; this employer did not disclose pay.
Employer
WVU Medicine / West Virginia University Health System (WV)
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Facility & Community
- Practice setting
- Academic medical center
- Facility type
- Academic medical center (J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital)
- Beds
- 880
- Patient population
- Liver transplant patients and multi-organ transplant referrals
- EHR
- Not stated in posting
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Work Design
- Schedule
- 40 hours per week
- Shift type
- Exempt
- Inpatient / outpatient
- Primarily inpatient transplant surgery within an academic medical center
- Admin burden
- Involves developing clinical infrastructure and protocols
- FTE
- 1
- Teaching
- Yes
- Research
- Yes
Visa & Eligibility
- Remote
- No
Source & Verification
- Source
- Official employer source
- Salary label
- SalaryDr Signal
- First seen
- 2 mo ago
- Last verified
- today
- Extraction confidence
- 90%
Full description
Whether you are caring for our patients at one of the critical access hospitals, community sites, regional or academic medical centers, we are all one WVU Health System.
Work Here. Thrive Here.
Additional Job Description:
West Virginia University School of Medicine and the Department of Surgery seek a Liver Transplant Surgeon qualified for appointment at the Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor rank. The successful candidate will be expected to practice in Morgantown, WV.
Duties: The successful candidate will practice in the areas of Liver Transplant Surgery. In addition to providing excellent patient care, the successful candidate will also be actively involved in teaching medical students, residents, and fellows. This is a unique opportunity to help play a foundational role in the development of a comprehensive liver transplant program within a growing academic medical center. The successful candidate will work closely with surgical and medical leadership to build clinical infrastructure, develop protocols, and establish a culture of excellence, safety, and innovation, including the development of a strong living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) program.
Qualifications: Candidate must have an MD or DO degree or foreign equivalent and be eligible for state medical license. Successful candidate must have completed General Surgery residency program, as well as transplant fellowship program. Successful candidates must be board certified/ eligible in transplant surgery. All qualifications must be met by the time of appointment.
The WVU Medicine Transplant Alliance is West Virginia’s first and only multi-organ transplant center. WVU Transplant Alliance completed its first heart transplant in 2019 and kidney transplant in 2020. Since then, our team has helped many patients from West Virginia and surrounding regions to navigate complex medical challenges, explore transplant candidacy, and make informed decisions regarding their health.
Our multidisciplinary teams work together with the mission of providing exceptional, patient-centered organ transplant care in West Virginia. We work tirelessly to reach those suffering from chronic or end-stage heart or kidney disease, offering trusted, state-of-the-art care in an area with some of the highest rates of both heart and kidney disease in the nation. We do this by:
Using novel approaches to care
Demonstrating excellent outcomes in transplant success
Empowering staff and clinicians to provide a tailored, comprehensive experience for each patient
You will join a highly skilled surgical team making an extraordinary difference in the lives of patients across our entire state. Ours is a collaborative atmosphere that encourages innovation and growth. The Department of Surgery is committed to the mission of building an outstanding academic department and to recruiting highly qualified faculty. Successful candidates will embody the clinical, educational, and research missions.
About the WVU Health System
The West Virginia University Health System is West Virginia’s largest health system and the state’s largest employer with more than 3,400 licensed beds, 4,600 providers, 35,000 employees, and $7 billion in total operating revenues. The Health System is comprised of 25 hospitals – including J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital, an 880-bed academic medical center, and the 150-bed WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia – and five institutes. To learn more, visit WVUMedicine.org.
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